I had a small issue with Hibernation and Suspend not working, but looking through the forums and using google I have managed to get hibernation to work fully (including resuming the graphics). I did this by adding

to fstab. But now when I boot, I notice that I get "Activating swap... Failed" but further down "Activating Swapfile Swap...... Done" in the boot sequence messages (before the Logon Screen). If I remove the above line from fstab I then get "Loading Swap...Done" at boot, but then I can not hibernate.

does not have the boot sequence messages to study. What makes this an odd issue is that my swapfile is working ok as I have checked the System Monitor.

I guess this means there is no point in worrying, but I thought that I would share this with the community and with any luck some one will fill me in and some others may be able to fix their hibernation issues.

On the other hand this has not solved Suspend not working. I have looked into uswsusp but have not implemented it, as I now have hibernation working fully. I have included lspci and lsusb in case anyone needs it.

Check if Resume line in "/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume" file is commented out:gksudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resumeIf yes, like this#RESUME=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxthen add the following lineRESUME=/dev/sda5

Then run:sudo update-initramfs -ufollowed by reboot.

See if you can suspend.

PS! You also said: "I have tried sudo gedit /var/log/boot but the file was blank".This is because boot logging is off by default. To enable it:gksudo gedit /etc/default/bootlogdchangeBOOTLOGD_ENABLE=NotoBOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes

Skinnx86 wrote:I now have boot log working but unfortunately still no suspend, even after initramfs update and reboot.

If you are willing to change "/dev/sda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0" (which only makes sense for systems having multiple swaps),you could try the following sequence (I cannot guarantee but if successful will make both hibernate and suspend work):1) sudo swapoff /dev/sda5

It worked to some degree. As in, "Activating Swap...Failed" at boot is now replaced with "Activating Swap...Done". But I still can not suspend. Hibernate still works though. FYI when I Hibernate my machine's screen goes black (but not off) for a while - I presume it is saving the current state - then turns off. When I choose to put my machine into suspend it does not seam to do this, but to turn off the machine nearly instantly. When I switch it on the screen comes on but stays black and all I can do it hold the power button until it switches off.

I did realize that "pri=42 0 0" was for multiple swaps but seaming as it worked for hibernation (and I like the idea of the ultimate answer to Life, The Universe and Everything in my fstab file ), I left it alone.

My partner banned me dual booting linux on her desktop due to it being too much hassle. Stuck LMDE in a VM, now she has no choice...

Skinnx86 wrote:It worked to some degree. As in, "Activating Swap...Failed" at boot is now replaced with "Activating Swap...Done". But I still can not suspend. Hibernate still works though. FYI when I Hibernate my machine's screen goes black (but not off) for a while - I presume it is saving the current state - then turns off. When I choose to put my machine into suspend it does not seam to do this, but to turn off the machine nearly instantly. When I switch it on the screen comes on but stays black and all I can do it hold the power button until it switches off.

I did realize that "pri=42 0 0" was for multiple swaps but seaming as it worked for hibernation (and I like the idea of the ultimate answer to Life, The Universe and Everything in my fstab file ), I left it alone.

In other words, back to the very beginning.

Sorry Skinnx86, I had great hopes for this. It must be a model specific issue, very strange.

The ultimate answer to Life is the best. Me and a few friends had great fun with '42' for quite a long time.Please please make every thing exactly as it was in the beginning, ... pri=42 0 0

I glad I made someones day! And thank you for the quick and precise responses. It is and old - at least 5 or 6 years - Dell D600, I'm just glad it bested my mates M$:W7 / Quad Core / 3GB RAM in loading Engadget. And tied it in overall boot time, but that is only because I had to select LMDE in Grub. As I said in my initial post,

I guess this means there is no point in worrying, but I thought that I would share this with the community and with any luck some one will fill me in and some others may be able to fix their hibernation issues.

In other words, back to the very beginning.

Ah. Not quite. I don't have "Activating Swap...Failed" any more, so i'm not sure I should change it back (I still have "pri=42 0 0 " commented out! although admittedly it does not have as much "geek-cred" ) Do you really think it would be better though? I may change it if anything breaks - or I could change back, backup, the switch back again, in case of a fault.

My partner banned me dual booting linux on her desktop due to it being too much hassle. Stuck LMDE in a VM, now she has no choice...

Skinnx86 wrote:Ah. Not quite. I don't have "Activating Swap...Failed" any more, so i'm not sure I should change it back (I still have "pri=42 0 0 " commented out! although admittedly it does not have as much "geek-cred" ) Do you really think it would be better though? I may change it if anything breaks - or I could change back, backup, the switch back again, in case of a fault.

I was afraid that you had deleted pri=42 from fstab. If it is commented out, then leave it as it is until someone comes withthe ultimate answer. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)